>>>but 386 probably uses a lot of electricity compared to newer CPUs.
No not really. I have a 386 laptop that runs quite cool. Doesn't even need a fan, which would be impossible with modern CPU. Plus a modern 386 would use the latest techniques, like die-shrink, to reduce power even lower.
My anonymous coward up there has been modded-up from 0 to +3, but the story he shared is complete and total fiction. Benjamin Franklin's statement that I quoted comes from the 1775 debates on how to deal with the oppressive UK government stealing away individual liberties and desolving the PA General Assembly. And still holds true today.
We have given up certain rights (private messages) in the face of supposed security (from terrorists), but that security is only temporary. Someday a future tyrant will rise-up, and because we've given away our right to privacy, he will have unlimited power to spy upon (and arrest) his enemies.
And don't call me a nutter. In just the last hundred years, tyrants have killed over 150 million innocent citizens ("enemies of the state").
>>>little Libertarian hamster wheel will... invent some plausible threat of violence that exists only in your blinkered mind
No need to "invent" anything Mr. Rude and insulting person. In the UK if two people share an encrypted message (or disk drive), and the government decides they want to know what it says, but you and your partner refuse to share the key, both persons can spend upto 5 years in jail. It's assumed guilt even if the encrypted message is just "I'm horny; let's have sex this evening."
That's the violence/force a government has, and now it appears the same idea is spreading over here. Only difference is the UK demands the key after the fact. The US is demanding the key upfront.
You're right we could just switch to pieces of plastic, but still as bad an idea as our fiat paper money. From 1800 to 1910 the US dollar lost no value. There were some fluctuations but a dollar in 1910 has the same purchasing power as a 1800 dollar.
In contrast the last hundred years have seen the dollar drop to a mere penny. In other words a dollar today only buys what 1 penny bought in 1910 (a candybar or soda).
That's what happens when you let a private corporation (the central bank) run wild with the printing press. They inflated the money supply approximately 100x and devalued the existing supply (under your mattress or wherever) to 1/100th its previous value. It almost makes saving money pointless because it won't be worth the same amount a decade from now.
They could just install little heaters. The slightly increased energy use of LED plus heater would still be less than an incandescent bulb (which runs hot even in summer)
>>>If you're using three times that, maybe your power bill should be six times the people using sane amounts, aka, you're paying twice as much.
That sounds great until you an Idiot Politician comes along and sets the "standard" amount to 100 kilowatt-hours (because he thinks everybody needs to cut back).
Now instead of the standard ~15 cent per kWh, you've got almost everyone paying 2x15 cents per kWh. THIS is why your idea is bad. .
>>>I can see a bunch of liberals now trying to raise chickens with a CFL, wondering why they keep dying.
Although I understand your point (that liberals spend all their lives in cities and have little understanding of basic necessities like farming), you also happen to be wrong.
CFLs get very hot, as I've discovered with my burned fingers. You could heat your chickens with CFL bulbs just fine, and you'd probably use less money too (since CFLs last about ten times longer if operated continuously) .
The Democrat Congress doesn't give a fuck about farmers or do-it-yourselfers.
They want all of us to quit those jobs, go work in factories or offices, and then depend on Mommy Government to provide us with the necessities of life. How DARE you do something like raise your own food? You must be some kind of Tea Party nutjob. (Just joking of course.) (Or am I?) .
Heat pumps are more efficient specifically because they don't "make" heat They extract the heat from outside and bring it inside. So instead of just 100% efficiency, you have ~300% efficiency.... for every 1 watthour of electricity used, you gain the heat equivalent of 3 watthours.
DISAGREE on CFLs being better.
Edison bulbs are older but still superior tech to CFLs, since they eliminate mercury poisoning, dim turnons (waiting 3-4 minutes until I can see my book), premature heat-death from enclosed fixtures or upside-down fixtures, and high cost (about ten times more). The old Edison bulbs also eliminate the diesel or gasoline emissions from special trucks having to collect the CFLs, in order to recycle them at a central plant that burns even MORE energy.
Edison bulbs also are locally built, whereas CFLs have to be shipped ~10,000 miles from Chinese or Indian factories. It all adds up a lot of reasons to consider CFLs an inferior and *dirtier* technology. . (dons flame-repellent armor)
Trees oly sequester carbon for a SHORT time, not a long time. They grow old, they die, they get eaten by bacteria which releases the carbon.
If you're betting on trees as a way to trap Carbon, then you're in for a disappointment. They only trap the carbon if they are buried deep, deep underground.
A Penn & Teller argued in their show, use of wood actually creates MORE trees because then companies start "gardening" trees and planting more. - Put another way: Do we see a shortage of potatoes? Of course not, because people eat lots of chips and fries.
Wood (and plants in general) is actually the best fuel you can use:
- it's renewable (unlike oil or coal) - it's solar energy
>>>overly insistent something needs to be done right away, or in a very specific way.....
I would first ask her "why" it has to be done immediately. If she still keep insisting, I'd tell her I already have one boss at work and don't need another at home, and if she continues in this fashion of treating me like an idiot and/or child, then I will file divorce papers later this week.
Better to be single and happy, than married and miserable.
>>>Of course, the New York Times article is way better than the Faux News article
FAKE news eh? That's cute. What does the DNC-NBC say about it?
Nothing.
The censorship of silence. Just as most of ye probably never heard about the Muslims chanting "die Pope!" and "Pope go to hell!" during his visit to England. If the reporters don't cover the news, then the people don't know anything about it. DNC-NBC is not going to talk about this new policy to spy on your messages. .
>>>The terrorists will develop their own encryption schemes so using wiretaps would be completely worthless anyway. The mafia is smart enough to outsmart this, street gangs are smart enough, terrorists are smart enough. This is to watch the civilian population like you and me. >>>
Don't read much history do you? The people rebelled several times against Communism in China, Russia, and Eastern Europe. They were squashed every time - like bugs. The idea of the "peaceful communist government" if myth. It's never existed.
>>>you are making it easy for an underpaid civil servant (or someone who blackmails a civil servant) to cause massive damage to the economy and make a large profit in the process.
But government employees (like Obama and the Congress) always assume that they are good, and such a thing could never happen. "You could trust the government with your keys." They blindly ignore history that shows the opposite.
>>>a modern economy can function without guns (at least on the inside)
The 1900s history of government (and 150 million unarmed citizens executed) disagree with your assertion. Guns are needed, if for no other reason, to keep the government leaders in check (through fear of revolt). Remember "checks and balances from school? Guns are one of those necessary checks upon unrestrained power.
"From time to time the Tree of Liberty must be watered with the blood of patriots and tyrants." - Jefferson, founder of the Democrats
>>>"favored a program of modernization and economic protectionism."
Sounds like big government and anti-consumer to me. AKA crony capitalism. Let the Whigs live in the past and instead vote Libertarian - as close to Jeffersonian ideals as you're likely to find in the modern world. The L Party's views can be succinctly defined as "put the 9th and 10th Amendments above all else".
It's the same in any long-life service, like space and military. For example the Aegis missile system runs on 286s and 386s while the busses run on a sedate 200 kilohertz speed. There have been recent upgrades to "new" PowerPCs or Pentiums, but only for a few select ships.
There are even some strange home users that still run on primitive CPUs from the Seventies! Like 6502, 8088, and 68000
Blowing yourself up makes sense if you think your soul is immortal.
There's literally nothing to lose, except getting "promoted" from hellish earth to heaven. ALSO even the suicidal people are smart enough to realize they have to keep secrets (encrypt messages) in order to reach their bombing destination.
Plus ~90,000 in mortgage plus credit card debt. Plus ~$140,000 in national debt that must be repaid someday. The American Republic is heading down the same path as the Roman Republic - bankruptcy. At the end they couldn't even raise an army to defend themselves.
>>>Of course, the New York Times article is way better than the Faux News article
What does the DNC-NBC say about it?
Nothing.
The censorship of silence. (sigh). I'm hoping the New Republicans adopt libertarian principles when they win Congress this fall, but I'm not holding my breath. The 5 years from 2001-to-6 demonstrated they are dicks as well.
>>>I value my freedom over a false sense of security. If you aren't comfortable with that, perhaps America isn't for you.
"Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety [until the next tyrant comes along and uses his power to imprison you] deserve neither Liberty nor Safety." - Benjamin Franklin
If you outlaw guns.... I mean secure keyless encryption, then only the criminals will have encrypted messages. (And the rest of us will be defenseless sheep.)
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>>>but 386 probably uses a lot of electricity compared to newer CPUs.
No not really. I have a 386 laptop that runs quite cool. Doesn't even need a fan, which would be impossible with modern CPU. Plus a modern 386 would use the latest techniques, like die-shrink, to reduce power even lower.
PROOF THAT SLASHDOT MODERATION IS FLAWED.
My anonymous coward up there has been modded-up from 0 to +3, but the story he shared is complete and total fiction. Benjamin Franklin's statement that I quoted comes from the 1775 debates on how to deal with the oppressive UK government stealing away individual liberties and desolving the PA General Assembly. And still holds true today.
We have given up certain rights (private messages) in the face of supposed security (from terrorists), but that security is only temporary. Someday a future tyrant will rise-up, and because we've given away our right to privacy, he will have unlimited power to spy upon (and arrest) his enemies.
And don't call me a nutter. In just the last hundred years, tyrants have killed over 150 million innocent citizens ("enemies of the state").
>>>little Libertarian hamster wheel will... invent some plausible threat of violence that exists only in your blinkered mind
No need to "invent" anything Mr. Rude and insulting person. In the UK if two people share an encrypted message (or disk drive), and the government decides they want to know what it says, but you and your partner refuse to share the key, both persons can spend upto 5 years in jail. It's assumed guilt even if the encrypted message is just "I'm horny; let's have sex this evening."
That's the violence/force a government has, and now it appears the same idea is spreading over here. Only difference is the UK demands the key after the fact. The US is demanding the key upfront.
You're right we could just switch to pieces of plastic, but still as bad an idea as our fiat paper money. From 1800 to 1910 the US dollar lost no value. There were some fluctuations but a dollar in 1910 has the same purchasing power as a 1800 dollar.
In contrast the last hundred years have seen the dollar drop to a mere penny. In other words a dollar today only buys what 1 penny bought in 1910 (a candybar or soda).
That's what happens when you let a private corporation (the central bank) run wild with the printing press. They inflated the money supply approximately 100x and devalued the existing supply (under your mattress or wherever) to 1/100th its previous value. It almost makes saving money pointless because it won't be worth the same amount a decade from now.
You are not aware.
They could just install little heaters. The slightly increased energy use of LED plus heater would still be less than an incandescent bulb (which runs hot even in summer)
>>>If you're using three times that, maybe your power bill should be six times the people using sane amounts, aka, you're paying twice as much.
That sounds great until you an Idiot Politician comes along and sets the "standard" amount to 100 kilowatt-hours (because he thinks everybody needs to cut back).
Now instead of the standard ~15 cent per kWh, you've got almost everyone paying 2x15 cents per kWh. THIS is why your idea is bad.
.
>>>I can see a bunch of liberals now trying to raise chickens with a CFL, wondering why they keep dying.
Although I understand your point (that liberals spend all their lives in cities and have little understanding of basic necessities like farming), you also happen to be wrong.
CFLs get very hot, as I've discovered with my burned fingers. You could heat your chickens with CFL bulbs just fine, and you'd probably use less money too (since CFLs last about ten times longer if operated continuously)
.
The Democrat Congress doesn't give a fuck about farmers or do-it-yourselfers.
They want all of us to quit those jobs, go work in factories or offices, and then depend on Mommy Government to provide us with the necessities of life. How DARE you do something like raise your own food? You must be some kind of Tea Party nutjob. (Just joking of course.) (Or am I?)
.
That's odd. Even with my fan running on my portable heater, the element still glows red.
Agreed.
Heat pumps are more efficient specifically because they don't "make" heat They extract the heat from outside and bring it inside. So instead of just 100% efficiency, you have ~300% efficiency.... for every 1 watthour of electricity used, you gain the heat equivalent of 3 watthours.
DISAGREE on CFLs being better.
Edison bulbs are older but still superior tech to CFLs, since they eliminate mercury poisoning, dim turnons (waiting 3-4 minutes until I can see my book), premature heat-death from enclosed fixtures or upside-down fixtures, and high cost (about ten times more). The old Edison bulbs also eliminate the diesel or gasoline emissions from special trucks having to collect the CFLs, in order to recycle them at a central plant that burns even MORE energy.
Edison bulbs also are locally built, whereas CFLs have to be shipped ~10,000 miles from Chinese or Indian factories. It all adds up a lot of reasons to consider CFLs an inferior and *dirtier* technology.
.
(dons flame-repellent armor)
Trees oly sequester carbon for a SHORT time, not a long time. They grow old, they die, they get eaten by bacteria which releases the carbon.
If you're betting on trees as a way to trap Carbon, then you're in for a disappointment. They only trap the carbon if they are buried deep, deep underground.
A Penn & Teller argued in their show, use of wood actually creates MORE trees because then companies start "gardening" trees and planting more. - Put another way: Do we see a shortage of potatoes? Of course not, because people eat lots of chips and fries.
Wood (and plants in general) is actually the best fuel you can use:
- it's renewable (unlike oil or coal)
- it's solar energy
>>>overly insistent something needs to be done right away, or in a very specific way.....
I would first ask her "why" it has to be done immediately. If she still keep insisting, I'd tell her I already have one boss at work and don't need another at home, and if she continues in this fashion of treating me like an idiot and/or child, then I will file divorce papers later this week.
Better to be single and happy, than married and miserable.
>>>Of course, the New York Times article is way better than the Faux News article
FAKE news eh? That's cute. What does the DNC-NBC say about it?
Nothing.
The censorship of silence. Just as most of ye probably never heard about the Muslims chanting "die Pope!" and "Pope go to hell!" during his visit to England. If the reporters don't cover the news, then the people don't know anything about it. DNC-NBC is not going to talk about this new policy to spy on your messages.
.
>>>The terrorists will develop their own encryption schemes so using wiretaps would be completely worthless anyway. The mafia is smart enough to outsmart this, street gangs are smart enough, terrorists are smart enough. This is to watch the civilian population like you and me.
>>>
100% accurate. Obama - Bush Part 2.
>>>Did the people stop them? No.
Don't read much history do you? The people rebelled several times against Communism in China, Russia, and Eastern Europe. They were squashed every time - like bugs. The idea of the "peaceful communist government" if myth. It's never existed.
>>>you are making it easy for an underpaid civil servant (or someone who blackmails a civil servant) to cause massive damage to the economy and make a large profit in the process.
But government employees (like Obama and the Congress) always assume that they are good, and such a thing could never happen. "You could trust the government with your keys." They blindly ignore history that shows the opposite.
>>>a modern economy can function without guns (at least on the inside)
The 1900s history of government (and 150 million unarmed citizens executed) disagree with your assertion. Guns are needed, if for no other reason, to keep the government leaders in check (through fear of revolt). Remember "checks and balances from school? Guns are one of those necessary checks upon unrestrained power.
"From time to time the Tree of Liberty must be watered with the blood of patriots and tyrants." - Jefferson, founder of the Democrats
>>>"favored a program of modernization and economic protectionism."
Sounds like big government and anti-consumer to me. AKA crony capitalism. Let the Whigs live in the past and instead vote Libertarian - as close to Jeffersonian ideals as you're likely to find in the modern world. The L Party's views can be succinctly defined as "put the 9th and 10th Amendments above all else".
It's the same in any long-life service, like space and military. For example the Aegis missile system runs on 286s and 386s while the busses run on a sedate 200 kilohertz speed. There have been recent upgrades to "new" PowerPCs or Pentiums, but only for a few select ships.
There are even some strange home users that still run on primitive CPUs from the Seventies! Like 6502, 8088, and 68000
Blowing yourself up makes sense if you think your soul is immortal.
There's literally nothing to lose, except getting "promoted" from hellish earth to heaven. ALSO even the suicidal people are smart enough to realize they have to keep secrets (encrypt messages) in order to reach their bombing destination.
>>>McMansion, credit cards, luxury cars, online shopping sprees, ....
Plus ~90,000 in mortgage plus credit card debt. Plus ~$140,000 in national debt that must be repaid someday. The American Republic is heading down the same path as the Roman Republic - bankruptcy. At the end they couldn't even raise an army to defend themselves.
>>>Of course, the New York Times article is way better than the Faux News article
What does the DNC-NBC say about it?
Nothing.
The censorship of silence. (sigh). I'm hoping the New Republicans adopt libertarian principles when they win Congress this fall, but I'm not holding my breath. The 5 years from 2001-to-6 demonstrated they are dicks as well.
>>>I value my freedom over a false sense of security. If you aren't comfortable with that, perhaps America isn't for you.
"Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety [until the next tyrant comes along and uses his power to imprison you] deserve neither Liberty nor Safety." - Benjamin Franklin
Put another way:
If you outlaw guns.... I mean secure keyless encryption, then only the criminals will have encrypted messages. (And the rest of us will be defenseless sheep.)